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Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered and equitable care.

Dartmouth Atlas Project
To support the continued management, expansion and analyses of the Dartmouth Atlas data infrastructure.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
To undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.

Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
To support hospitals in improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.

Strategy for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee
To provide support to an alliance of health care organizations that promotes more transparent health care systems across outpatient and inpatient settings.

Transforming Care at the Bedside®
To create, test and spread prototype hospital nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care.

Advancing Diabetes Self-Management
Program to expand and test multicomponent self-management programs that could be delivered in primary care settings and improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care
To support partnerships among local health care providers and community organizations to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethnic diversity influence related health behaviors.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.

Health Tracking
To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.

Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
To support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive eHealth applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.